Warke, V.
Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, India
Vasant Warke is the Head of Technology at RIL’s Center of Excellence for Aromatics and LAB. He has more than 20 yr of experience in operations and technology services. He is responsible for providing high-end services to process units, practicing different technologies and complying with performance through assurance on reliability. He holds an M Chem Engg degree from Mumbai University in India.
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) manufactures para-diethylbenzene (PDEB) at one of its plants by alkylation of ethylbenzene (EB) with ethylene, using RIL's own technology and super-selective catalyst.
Mhatre, S.,
Warke, V., Reliance Industries Ltd.;
Choi, A.,
Molinier, M.,
Saple, A., ExxonMobil Chemical Co.
In a typical xylene loop, C8 aromatics are fractionated out of a heavy reformate C8+ aromatics stream and collected in the xylene column overhead. Then, paraxylene (PX) from the C8 aromatics stream is recovered as product—usually by an adsorption or crystallization process—in the PX recovery section.